Boeing is another good example of a leader hollowed out.

Who could have forseen this?

The problem is that major companies have unsustainably, and against all easily available wisdom, started to run their companies like Private Equity/VC companies, who aren’t trying to build something of value but just profit from arbitrage or short windows of positive data.

Yeah but think of the levels of patriotism, just off the charts. I said OFF THE CHARTS

Surely the savings will go into better benefits for survivors, more stable plans, better medical care…?

The answer to this question is the actual problem, singlemindedness.

I love coffee and this made me laugh–because there are some who take this stuff way too seriously and try to even gatekeep enjoying coffee or castigate others for not making it as large of a production in their lives. Props to people who try to help others understand the depth in an area though.

🤦

“If you don’t want to be countin’ the fingers you haven’t got, or sharing a bed with the Anti-Christ, I want those guns! QUICK!”

Nice example to set for students who they’d surely censure if they used AI in their student work.

The structural driver that over decades tore safety and excellence out from Boeing’s engineers, greed and more greed, has been removed so there is no longer a risk that Boeing leaders would trade human life for 1/4% increase in their own stock price.

Definitely fixed now. I totally trust the company after all the soul searching and improvements they must have made.

This is a poor analogy. Those installed in Doge knew exactly the value and reason the systems. Processes, people, regulations and institutions they are deleting existed; they didn’t want them to as it was disadvantageous to their greedy fixation on omnipotence.

It’s naive to pretend it’s not deliberate.

Probably just a coincidence.

They’re called parents.

Higher education, especially smaller, private universities are going to collapse from the post-war structure. Large, public, universities will be fine, online will proliferate and costs will plunge.

Even still, if everyone keeps saying all college jobs are going to disappear from AI, it’s going to just eliminate that higher ed completely. Mcdonalds U will be all that most people know of education after high school.

God I’m old.

Gotta stick to emotion, opinion and subjective, otherwise we might make progress with rationality.

God forbid the standard playbook of fleecing taxpayers for the benefit of billionaire owners and wealthy season ticket holders be upset.

The blazers can fucking leave, we have bigger problems like affordable housing that take precedence over upgrading the suites in the moda center so rich corps can lobby and spoil themselves. The gall of some out of state billionaire just assuming they’ll get a bunch of money when the city is broke…people can’t even eat out in Portland let alone go to a sports game. So out of touch.

Sure, layer in the cyclical expansion of restaurants and breweries/wineries that fed on cheap interest rates/loans and combine it with Portland being one of the harder-hit cities with COVID foot traffic changed as well as one of the least affordable cities(wages vs. COL) in the nation and you’re bound to see pullback in discretionary spending and F&B are among the first things to be cut–especially at the prices they want to charge in Portland.

Anything but having the rich pay their share. Anything but that.

Surprising no one. Easy money spigot (low fed interest rates) turned off in 2022 after nearly 15 years of unprecedented low rates, which is the lifeblood of new enterprise so it’s expected the new openings would decrease. During that 1t years there were also lots of new enterprises that should never have been, but with money that cheap certain things were risked or penciled out at the time.

Combine that with the insanity of trying to run a business in the utter chaos and instability of the last 18 months, it’s no wonder businesses are closing at higher rates.

The acting was good, the script was ok, I had just read and learned so much about it all in 08-12 I was over it by the time Hollywood and the rest of the world got around to engaging with it.

Margin call I watched a few years ago and also liked.